SOC 12050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Jeremy Bentham, Georg Simmel, Harriet Martineau
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Society is no more decomposable unto individuals than a geometric surface is into lines, or a line into points. It is our business to contemplate social order that we may perfect it. Comte, august, the positive philosophy, harriet martineau, trans. Bentham, jeremy the works of jeremy bentham john bowring, ed. (edinburgh: tait; london:simkin, marshall, 1843): 306, georg simmel. There is an old conflict over the nature of society. One side mystically exaggerates its significance, contending that only through society is human life endowed with reality. Georg simmel the sociology of sociability ( everett c. hughes tr. ) Georg simmel (march 1, 1858 september 28, 1918. Biography of simmel: society is , a society is a group of people who share a culture and live more or less together. Institutions are the principal social structures that organize, direct, and execute the essential tasks of living.